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I had this with some nice Latvian guys back in 2002 (please note: I have nothing against Latvia - just these guys). My little experience: Our director decided to "cut costs" as we …

Genuinely speaking the following works for me: Calendar: A moleskine. Based on the amount of times I haven't had access to "the cloud" or my phone is DOA (less of an issue now I've…

Another fugly abstraction. What is wrong with writing HTML?

It doesn't work in IE9. That's just careless.

The whole thing simply doesn't work in IE at all (IE9). It doesn't even make a good attempt at working in it. Perhaps against the grain but not everyone doesn't use Internet Explor…

Seriously just buy a damn hardcopy. You can get them cheaper than most Kindle books as well. I find a fair amount of my reading material for less than 1 GBP in charity shops.

Being in Europe (the UK), I am all for SOPA. If it goes through, the EU will get all antsy and we'll end up with our own Internet without the controlling interests of the US. It's …

They're flogging a dead horse here, or perhaps a dead Jobs. Excuse the bad taste but I think this is getting rediculous and my comment is more tasteful than all the grovelling snot…

To be honest, I say fuck them. I'd rather lose the work than have to support IE6 as it's a time and therefore money sink. You have to be pragmatic with respect to such things. Even…

That's not going to happen.

I absolutely hate iPads with a passion. So much so that I writhe around in agony thinking about the things usually. However, that is actually a pretty neat idea. I'm not sure I'd s…

There's nothing publically wrong with JDK5, unlike IE6. Why upgrade and go through a massive QA cycle when it works? I think people have upgrade addictions these days. I still know…

The high level architectural patterns he usually deals with will live decades longer than the memory and cache heirarchy problems we have at the moment, so I don't think he's parti…